the_ricktacular_mort

the_ricktacular_mort OP t1_j3j7dz5 wrote

Alternatively maybe, just maybe, I'd like to meet people outside of work who are passionate, hard working, and like building interesting things. Also what if, as an abstract hypothetical, I actually want to give back to my community???? And in that strange and nearly unimaginable reality, what if I think that it would be cool to use the skills I have to this aim.

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the_ricktacular_mort t1_ivopysn wrote

Imagine if Bernie had won the primary in 2016 and then the presidency. The democratic party would be far more left than it is today. The national party would have felt constrained by a not-so-small and very vocal minority.

That's basically what the republicans are dealing with currently, on both a national and state level.

On a state level, instead of embracing and building on the staggering success of Chis Sununu, the NHGOP fights him at every turn. Keren Testerman talks like it's 1950 and Joe McCarthy is still in charge.

Given Georgia, Pennsylvania, likely Arizona, and of course Buldoc here in New Hampshire, this election turned out to be a second referendum on Trump. In almost every major race where he got involved, his candidate lost. It could be argued that he lost Republicans control of the Senate, but even if other factors were more important, he sure as hell didn't help.

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